Another great feature of Netlify is there Content Management System. This allows you to edit your website’s posts without the need of a git account, from anywhere through the website’s admin page, and with more than the typical text editor. Using Netlify’s CMS is currently not a few button click process but it is still very straight forward. These are the steps needed to get Netlify’s CMS running on your jpgage.
Ever since I started looking at web development, I’ve had a thing for static site generators. They are a great way to get a simple website up and running. I’ve used many of the currently available generators: Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo. I’m always trying to learn the different features and why one is better than the other.
A new player has entered the SSG scene, VuePress. VuePress is built using the up and coming javascript framework Vue.js. This allows you to use all of the features of Vue.js while creating your static website. Tie that with an extremely easy setup and you’ve got a simple and powerful website generator.
I love GitLab pages. Being able to host a simple website with the same service I use for code makes managing services a lot more convenient. Of course with everything we use there are always alternatives. This post talks about a static site hosting alternative called Netlify.
Netlify offers many of the same features as GitHub pages but, since static site hosting is their primary service, they throw in a few added features. A couple of these features are the ability to do form submissions and compatibility with all static site generators. A complete comparison of features can be found here: https://www.netlify.com/github-pages-vs-netlify/.
I love using GitLab for all of my source control needs. You can imagine how happy I was to discover that the same service could be used to create a simple website for a project portfolio. Here is the short process needed to get your own static website up and running.
The first step to host a website from a git repository is to of course create the repository. If you do no have a custom domain name, then you can name the repository based on your user name to have a nicer URL than your typical repository will allow. For example, the repository for my nwneisen gitlab user would be:
When my sister first asked me for help with her website, I didn’t have much to say. I was going to school for embedded engineering and web development was a completely different beast. I looked through her server at the code but I could tell most of it was generated using tools in which I hadn’t used anything remotely similar. I wasn’t much able to help much but I got an idea of the issue she was running into with her site: speed, nonresponsive, and expensive.
A web app I’ve been working on to create a new way to decide where to eat with friends. It’s kind of like tinder but for food.
Yumz is an idea I had to make it easier to decide where to eat with friends. How often have you been with friends, throwing out restaurant ideas, only to have them shot down by one person or another. Yumz is here to fix that.
